Horses. Running – Vintage Print
![Horses. Running, [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/2b/2bf823ed6b8e-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A running horse, numbered 41 in Eadweard Muybridge's *The Attitudes of Animals in Motion*, appears here in a sequence of consecutive positions captured at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879. Muybridge made the series at the request of Leland Stanford, who wanted to settle whether a galloping horse ever has all four hooves off the ground at once. Muybridge's answer came from a row of cameras triggered by tripwires along the track, and the resulting images were among the first photographs to freeze motion in fractions of a second. The 1881 copyright date and the book's index reference tie this print to that publication, which helped change how artists and scientists understood animal movement.
| Created / published | [San Francisco] : Muybridge, c1881. |
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| Medium | 1 photographic print : albumen. |
| Genre | and LC-USZC4-13695 for images of this index." |
| Notes | Illus. in: The attitudes of animals in motion : a series of photographs illustrating the consecutive positions assumed by animals in performing various movements; executed at Palo Alto, California, in 1878 and 1879, no. 41. Copyright 1881 by Edw. J. Muybridge. Title from Index to Illustrations" in book. |
| Subjects | Animal locomotion--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Horseback riding--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. Horses--California--Palo Alto--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,132 × 4,120 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-226690 |
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